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COMMUNITY SPANISH PRESS, 1470-1966 ene a PRINT, POWER, AND POLITICS Henry F. Schulte The fall story of the Spanish —from its beginnings in 147 s ment of truth” reached under Franco’s con- S4 troversial Peess and Print Law of 1966 — told Sq by a former UPI news bureau chief in Ma- f drid. “For those concemed to know how a ‘free’ press can exist in a nation alternately torn for the past four centuries between impas- sioned license and dour repression.” — Benja- min Welles, The New York Times Washington Bureau. 280 pages. $6.95. COLLEGES A PRESIDENT'S VIEW Thomas E. O'Connell In this candid, hardbitting, and often irrever- ent book, the president of Massachusetts’ Berkshire Community College takes a scarch- ‘3 ing look at the rapid growth, present state, and future role of the “new” community college A visa-vis what Walter Lippmann has called : “the gigantic wark of adjusting our way of life j to the scientific revalution of this age and to the stupendous growth of the population.” 172 pages. $5.50, JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS HISTORIAN OF THE AMERICAN DREAM Allan Nevins A highly personalized biography of Nevins’ longtime friend and colleague, Pulitzer Prize winning historian James Trosiow Adams (1878-1949). Nevins enhances his memoir with a selection from Adams’ vast correspon- dence, revealing the many facets of an influen- tial scholar and an enduring friend. 300 pages. $6.95. THE ART OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Three men in the catbird seat YAZ. By Carl Yasirzemski with Al Hirshberg. Wustrated. Viking. 183 pp. 4.95. MY UPS AND DOWNS IN BASE- BALL, By Orlando Cepeda with Charles Einstein. Putnam. 192 pp. $3.%. MY LIFE 1S BASEBALL, By Frank Robinson with Al Silver. san. Doubleday. 225 pp. #4. By Ray Robinson A few years ago a friend of mine, who has provided ghost- writing help to several outstand- ing athletes on their autobiog- raphies, agreed to do a book with a former baseball star. The two men met, ste, talked and presumably exchanged confi- dences. Several months after the book was finished, the ballplayer, asked about his ghost-writer, re- plied, “Who's he?” The three prominent baseball - players featured in these books — Carl Yastrzemski, hero of the underdog Boston Red Sox Amer- ican League champions of 1967; Orlando Cepeda, Most Valuable Player of the runaway National League champs, the St, Louis Cards, in 1967; and Frank Rob- inson, Baltimore's tripte-crown winner in 1966—shouldn’t have such difficulties in remembering their respective collaborators. If most players of yesteryear seemed to hail from the swelter- ing swamps, farms and gas sta- tions of the Deep South, while now a majority appear to be descended from sun-baked Cali- fornians, the game today truly ‘limping around unnecessarily. was born in Puerto Rico. His ographies. The most me father, Perucho, once was rec~*perhaps is, recorded b ognized as the greatest baseball player in Puerto Rican history. Though Perucho once played for $3.50 a week, plus board, in Puerto Rico, he adamantly re- fused to come to the United States to play. A proud and stub- born man, he was furious that discrimination was practiced against Puerto Rican players in the United States. Born with a right leg that was malformed, Cepeda inherited the name of “paralitico”—the crip- ple. On Cepeda’s fifteenth birth- day, a doctor broke the bone in his leg and set the foot so it would point correctly. The leg Jooked normal —but Orlando wound up with an “acquired gait” and a totally spurious rep- utation for “not going all out.” Tn his years with the San Fran- cisco Giants, where he became one of basebail’s legitimate slug- gers, he never convinced even his teammates that he wasn’t Traded to the Cards in 1966, he i literally began life all over again. j It would be hard to find three more diverse backgrounds and environments, yet all three men are today full-edged American sports icons. True, Yaz, being white, probably was able to reap greater commercial divi- dends out of his American League Triple Crown than Frank Robinson, a Negro. As Robin. son somewhat bitterly points out: “Being a Negro Triple Crown winner was, I knew, not going to make me rich.” (He | irzemski, who underwe happy experience of see boyhood idol, Ted Wu haseball’s last 400 hitter into bis chief batting when he came to the Red! 1961. “You have to remember things,” Williams barP™\1 protegé and succes * , way Park’s left field. “Une, 1 your stance and back a Two, watch the ball. Three the ball through the mide Four, be quick.” Last year, right through World Series, Yaz followed \ liams’ counsel to perfection. ( the final day of the season riddled the Minnesota Twi with four hits to win che penna: for Boston’s 100-1 shots—eve though, as be confesses to M Hirshberg, he couldn’t sleep wink the night before. . Back~and more genuinely; deliciously Southern ‘than ever MARION BROWN’S SOUTHERN COOK ROMY